It has always been fashionable to dream of how to contribute a piece of individual knowledge to the world. And then actually do it. There are quite a few ways to achieve such a goal. Are you interested in what Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and other successful people were doing until the age of 25?
What did Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and other successful people do until the age of 25?
Steve Jobs founded his company and became a millionaire
From the beginning, Steve Jobs' young company had more employees month by month, and with its rapid growth (by 1980, revenues were already more than one hundred million dollars), Apple soon became the first name in the world's technological cradle, Silicon Valley. Steve was twenty-five at the time.
Larry Ellison worked odd jobs as a programmer
After moving to California at the age of twenty-two, this computer genius used the knowledge gained from his studies at a number of companies such as Fireman's Fund, Wells Fargo and AMPEC before landing at Amdahl Corporation. There he developed an IMB compatible mainframe computer.
Jeff Bezos has done a great job in finance
At the age of twenty-four, Jeff Bezos, the later founder and CEO of Amazon, started working at Bankers Trust, where he worked in the development of software for banking institutions. Two years later, he became the company's youngest vice president.
Elon Musk was the owner of his internet company
Before turning twenty-five, Musk dropped out of Stanford University's PhD program and launched his first Internet company. It was called Zip2, and it provided various business directories and maps. Four years later, Musk's company was bought by Compaq Corporation for 307 million US dollars. Musk, however, got the money to start his second company called PayPal.
Marisa Mayer was part of a team of twenty Google employees
At the age of twenty-four, Mayer became part of a team of Google employees and at the same time the company's first female engineer. She worked there for thirteen years before moving on to her role as CEO of Yahoo.
Mark Zuckerberg made a breakthrough with Facebook
Zuckerberg worked hard on the online social network Facebook until it hit 300 million users in 2009. At the time, he was thrilled with the success, but said it was just the beginning of Facebook's story. A year later, Time Magazine named him Person of the Year.
Sheryl Sandberg met mentor Larry Summers and completed her MBA studies at Harvard
At the age of twenty-five, Sandberg graduated from Harvard, in the department of economics. At that time, she was working at the World Bank as a mentee of her professor. When they were twenty-nine, she became Bill Clinton's financial secretary.
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Bill Gates made the first big deals in his life
At the age of twenty-one, Bill Gates founded Microsoft together with Paul Allen. In 1980, he started working with IBM.
Evan Spiegel currently owns a net worth of US$2.1 billion
Evan Spiegel was twenty-one years old when he launched an application called Picaboo, which was later renamed Snapchat. Spiegel is twenty-five years old today.
Michael Dell introduced his company to the public
At the age of nineteen, Michael Dell started selling computer equipment under the name PC Limited. In 1988, the public became aware of the computer corporation Dell. The growth of the company then rose to 30 million US dollars.
Jack Dorsey succeeded with Twitter
When Dorsey turned 24, he joined LiveJournal and created the concept for the online social network Stat.us, which was later renamed Twit.tr.
Sataya Nadella has joined Microsoft
At the age of twenty-two, Nadella moved from his native India to America, where he earned a master's degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. When he turned twenty-four, he joined Microsoft.
